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[ne0x]

Here's what I'm seeing; a 12-bit code of some kind. Looks like the waveforms you might see watching parallel communication lines.

I mucked around with makomk's python code and I think I'm getting a sequence of 12-bit numbers as read across the waveforms in parallel (every second pixel, since that seems to be the minimum unit). Maybe someone who's actually used python before can have a look at this.

There's still a lot of repeats in the output, and other nonsense I'm too tired to deal with tonight...

Best of luck.

[makomk]

Re: Shot in the dark

[dburnt]

Rose posted a question earlier and that is still bothering me (not that she posted )

What is the significance of the difference in colour? when you look at the file on it's own, the colour difference is quite pronounced...

[c1023]

The difference in colour is because your browser is doing a bad job of scaling the picture. When is is displayed at actual size, all the lines are a similar colour.

[TheQuestion]

[AtionSong]

Here are two pictures that might be some help:

A) When I was looking at this, it appeared that the lines might go together like puzzle pieces (see picture). This might help lead to the solution.

B) Because it seemed that some people may be using this, here are all the lines superimposed progressively on each other (this means that the first line is just line 1, the second line is lines 2 and 1, line 3 is lines 1, 2, and 3, etc.)

I hope these can help everyone!

(If not, I'm sorry for taking up space!)

[Scott]

[gamegirl]

simplify?

[makomk]

Tried interpreting it as image data (why not?); no luck with that approach so far (warning: 223kb animated GIF)

[Cabbage]

Taking a completely different tack, but still in the spirit of "frantically signal[ling] the dull quotidian parts of the brain to keep looking" and exploring different possibilities:

What if this is a number puzzle (ok, then we have a new question, what are the numbers for?)...

But maybe we just need to count the peaks and troughs. I've just thought of this and it is pretty simplistic. But there have been a few times when we have overegged the pudding as it were, and made things more complex than they turned out to be in the end (as gamegirl said above).

If the line starts in a trough, then count the number of peaks. If the line starts on a peak, then count the number of troughs. The variable lengths of the peaks and troughs could therefore possibly be a red herring:?:

When I just did this, I got:

9,7,9,9,5,8,7,5,7,8,7,9

igiiehgeghgi does not make much sense, and a ROT does not reveal anything from these letters.

Edit: added - Coordinates? Safe combination?

Any thoughts?

Cabbage

[isca]

Following Guin's suggestion (in another thread) about superimposition, is there a maze/catacomb/street we can place under this diagram?

[silvermoon]

[h0neym0nster]

I thought it was a curb map but have been unable to find a valid starting point, since we only know that the Granier house is in the Old Town, 30 minutes walk from Foreman Station. So I went off on a search and found this. It appears that we may have an NRZ digital signal, the page even states that loss of timimg due to lots of zero's is a problem. What do you think?

[EDIT] On closer inspection it is more likely to be the NRZI line code. Any telecoms gurus want to chip in on this

[Davermouse]

One slightly interesting thing is that not all the lines follow on from each other, the first few do, but then lines 4-5 it shifts, and 5-6 & 9-10, 10-11. That means either the lines are in the wrong order, or it's not a traditional waveform.

One of the problems with this kinda thing is that there're lots of diagrams that look like this, it's a very boring waveform really..

(Also woo, my first post)

[BrianEnigma]

So if this is a Cryptonomicon-style curb map, then we have either one really long street or twelve streets. If it is the latter, I would hope they all intersect somewhere in a star-like pattern, giving an "X marks the spot" sort of deal.

The question is, there are some pretty long troughs and one pretty long peak. This would indicate a number of VERY wide streets. Assuming the horizontal is a constant scale, then many of the streets are wider than the intervening blocks. Does this configuration actually make real-world sense? It doesn't seem so to me, unless the troughs are figurative and not literal steps down and might represent bodies of water or somesuch. I just can't make it work on a map.

One thing to consider: are we looking at the paper with the proper orientation? Should the rip be at the bottom?